The Latest Breaking News from Islam

The inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale is underway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Biennales are large and prestigious international art exhibitions held every two years.) This important new event for the Muslim world features numerous African artists. And the biennale’s artistic director is Sumayya Vally, a South African architecture professor and principal…

A German appeals court has ordered a new sentencing hearing for a German convert to Islam who was given 10 years in prison on charges that as a member of the Islamic State group in Iraq she allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave…

Sometimes Rabbi Joshua Franklin knows exactly what he wants to talk about in his weekly Shabbat sermons — other times, not so much. It was on one of those not-so-much days on a cold afternoon in late December that the spiritual leader of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons decided…

Women marched on International Women's Day to demand equal rights in Pakistan. But their slogans, like "my body, my choice," are red meat for conservatives who see the protesters as un-Islamic.

Ajmal Shahpal, from Nottingham, is alleged to have encouraged others to commit, prepare or instigate acts of terrorism.

Angry and filled with hate for Muslims, Richard McKinney once wanted to plant an explosive device outside the Islamic Center of Muncie in Indiana

Islamic films have found a devoted market in Indonesia. Commercial success will prolong the trend.

One of the holiest events in the Islamic calendar is marked this month

KABUL: Afghan universities reopened on Monday after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a "heartbreaking" ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force.

A small college panicked and fired a professor — but the real lessons aren't the ones the right wants to teach

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Vienna, praised Saudi Arabia’s efforts to dissociate the Islamic religion from the phenomena of terrorism and isolation, stressing the importance of the Makkah Document in confronting hatred and extremist ideas and spreading tolerance and coexistence. During an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat in Riyadh,…